{"id":205690,"date":"2026-09-30T16:32:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/205690\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T16:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:32:41","slug":"georgia-continues-expelling-foreigners-including-belarusians","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/205690\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia continues expelling foreigners, including Belarusians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

September 30, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Georgia has expelled 84 foreigners, including Belarusians, over the past few days, according to the Georgian interior ministry\u2019s Facebook post on September 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from Belarusians, the foreigners included nationals of Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, Ghana, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and other countries. They have all been banned from entering Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interior ministry said that 3,137 illegal migrants had been expelled from Georgia since the start of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ministry has reported expulsions 39 times this year, mentioning Belarusians on 17 occasions, including in February, March, April, May, July, August, and September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 25, Belarusian community activist Le\u016d Michieje\u016d was arrested in Georgia and expelled to Armenia after Tbilisi had denied his asylum request. Michieje\u016d was arrested upon arrival in Armenia at the request of the Belarusian authorities, as Minsk entered his name into the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) intergovernmental wanted persons database. He was soon released, as Yerevan, which has been pursuing closer ties with the European Union, does not extradite individuals persecuted for political reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of April, Pozirk<\/em> reported, citing its analysis of the Georgian migration authorities\u2019 data, that Georgia had expelled six Belarusian men and two women in January-March, a record high compared with six expulsions in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trend appears to be upward as Tbilisi deported only three Belarusians between 2019 and 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall figures also point to an intensifying anti-immigration drive: Georgia expelled 363 foreigners in 2024, 1,311 in 2025 and 904 in the first quarter of 2026 alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, Georgian authorities said they planned to deport 4,000 undocumented foreigners in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgian migration authorities are conducting ongoing raids to identify undocumented migrants, including door-to-door apartment checks, with Belarusians among those targeted. Local media and diaspora activists have reported cases of foreigners being deported on what they describe as trumped-up grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four Belarusian men and one woman were placed in a temporary detention center in the first quarter of 2026, according to the police data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, a visa-free country for Belarusians, is home to about 12,000 citizens of Belarus, many of whom fled their country for fear of politically motivated persecution after the 2020 presidential election, but their number keeps shrinking. Georgia has not granted asylum to a single Belarusian under the Georgian Dream government of pro-Russian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili over the past seven years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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